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Confirmed and removed. I found the Redundant flag in Mod Organizer and also removed: AMidianBorn Iron - Cabals Cut 2k AMidianBorn Steel RC4 New Thinner Torch - Ultimate HD Torch Compatible Thanks again.

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Good find. I looked into this and found that STEP Core installs HD Enhanced Terrain old version with snow to get noise.dds and WorldMapOverlaySnow_n.dds; then installs Enhanced Distant Terrain which overwrites noise.dds. When reviewing the mods, I chose HD Enhanced Terrain PRO - Blended version because I think the 2K noise.dds is superior with no performance loss. There is no WorldMapOverlaySnow_n.dds in that version so it is being completely overwritten by Enhanced Distant Terrain. As for WorldMapOverlaySnow_n.dds, I'm getting that from Dramatic Snow for Map - Type 2. Therefore I'm going to uninstall Enhanced Distant Terrain. Thanks for the help. P.S. I updated the mod list in post #3 to reflect my latest modlist.txt from Mod Organizer. [Edit] After using both for a while I discovered that Enhanced Distant Terrain and vanilla cause massive flickering (z-fighting) in the mountains while HD Enhanced Terrain PRO - Blended version virtually eliminates it. I read about a bug where enemy killmoves are triggered without considering the players armor, shield, perks, etc; so I'm checking Player Killmove Immunity in the VioLens mod configuration menu settings. I still get one-shotted by bandit leaders wielding two handed weapons but at least now I know it's fair.

After watching this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyZIc86SPdk I agree that Project ENB + CoT is an excellent choice if you can afford the FPS hit. Personally, I wouldn't go with Supreme Storms. The Wet and Cold blur effect for blizzards, rain, and ash is intrusive enough for me. You can enable blizzard blind if you want to make them more punishing. The Hypothermia mod has chased me indoors by blizzard like conditions a few times as well. I think Climates of Tamriel - Weather Patch would go nicely with Project ENB: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/39799/?

Yes, I noticed that too. Thanks for the mod, I just installed it.

Perkus Maximus looks interesting - if it works. I just watched this funny video about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaQ5he1J-1Y It's so new that I think I'll save that for a future playthrough after they've had a chance to work the bugs out of it. I read on the AFT forum that you can't teach followers PM spells. Let me know if it works for you. P.S. I decided to restart to try out the new strategy and test the difficulty at lower levels.

Looks amazing but the lens flare and softening effects make everything a little blurry and my eyes need the sharpest, clearest view possible. Enjoy

I found the fights boring and too easy without Revenge of the Enemies, yet I still didn't want unreasonable overpowered encounters. So I decided to try ASIS instead. As a patcher, ASIS is more complex to install but it is configurable and does much more. I also reinstalled Deadly Dragons which is made reasonable by installing Ultimate Dragons after it. I was really enjoying Skyrim with ASIS until I had to fight the vampire boss Morvarth while trying to become the Thane of Hjaalmarch. His lightning attacks were devastating and the whole encounter was impossible with all the vampire followers and their summons. I needed a better strategy to deal with these overpowered encounters and here it is: https://1drv.ms/1xOPOx1 In short, while I generally adventure with three followers, I will bring more if necessary to deal with tough fights. I enabled the AFT setting for force post combat regen. In addition, magic and elemental resistance are critical. In addition to enchanting I'm using the Lords Stone and Alteration perks.

This thread has 840 views so I guess I'll keep posting to it. I figured out how to make the follower AI use offensive spells, defensive spells, and bows and melee. 1. Equip bow, ammo, melee weapon (and shield if 1 handed weapon). 2. Set Health, Magicka, Stamina at 3:2:1. Ex. 300 health, 200 magicka, 100 stamina. 3. Assign 1 skill point per level to the following seven skills: Archery, Destruction, 1 or 2 handed weapon, Light or Heavy Armor, Restoration, Block, Conjuration. 4. Set AFT combat style to General. 5. Teach the follower lightning bolt, fire bolt, or ice spike. 6. Teach the highest heal self, heal other, and ward they can cast. Use AFT View Standard Spells to see if they have enough magicka for the spells. 7. Set four tweak spells: Heal player at 25%, Heal self at 50%, Conjure Familiar at 75%, Courage at Start of Combat. At range, the AI will use spells and switch to bows when out of magicka. At melee, the AI will use spells and switch to melee when out of magicka. The AI will also use wards and self healing automatically.

I've learned that Enhanced Enemy AI - Revenge of the Enemies creates unbalanced overpowered encounters that spoil the game for me.

I remapped the keyboard commands so my left hand never has to leave the home row (except for 1-8 which can't be remapped) E can't be remapped without breaking Take Book R can't be remapped without breaking Craft Item

I've played this to 30th level with only minor problems. 1. Uthgerd stopped following. I noticed this after using the horsecaller horn in a location where she didn't have room to get on the horse. It left her script in a bad state. I had to use the AFT Reset Character command to recover. 2. Sometimes when I tell my follower to Make Camp on uneven terrain, I get stuck inside the tent. I had to use fast travel to the current location to get out of the tent. 3. Sometimes Hypothermia doesn't recognize the cloak I'm wearing and I start to freeze to death. Some cloaks it just doesn't recognize. Other times I simply have to unequip then reequip the cloak to recover. 4. Occasional CTD. These seem to be due to the game exceeding the 3.n GB memory limit because it always recovers when I reload. 5. Some encounters are crazy hard. I finally had to remove Immersive Difficulty Thane. [Edit] I later tracked this down to Revenge of the Enemies.

I added Parallax Support Downloaded and installed: Project Parallax Vanilla 1-3 SMIM Bridge 1-74 update Stonewall Update ENB Parallax Only Config 221 PPR aMidianBorn Whiterun V2 Vivid Landscapes - All in One - Loose Files 2048 Vivid Landscapes - Enhanced Lights and FX Compatibility patch Vivid Landscapse - Moss Rocks - Compatibility Patch Reinstalled Real Ice choosing Parallax option Reinstalled Skyfalls and Skymills choosing Parallax option Uninstalled Vivid Landscapes - Castle Volkihar - Non ENB Patch Disabled AntiAliasing in Skyrim Launcher Settings Screenshot of Lydia (spell sword & shield) and Uthgerd (Xbow & 2H) at Dragonsreach with Parallax only ENB: https://1drv.ms/1tBF9RX - 45 FPS @2560x1600 Similar screenshot with Vividian ENB Performance: https://1drv.ms/1pnCcpT - 25 FPS @2560x1600 (unplayable)

Configuring Amazing Follower Tweaks [Edit] I removed Immersive Patrols because it caused massive lag and eventually a CTD heading into Whiterun. I added the mod Slightly Reduced NPC Greetings to fix a problem with Follower Commentary Overhaul speaking too frequently.

I'll setup a wiki page if there are enough people interested to justify the effort. Here are the Mod Configuration Menu settings I recommend: Requiem? Sounds hardcore, good luck.

I created a new character and tested this for a couple of hours without any crashes or glitches. Skyrim never looked so good or ran so smooth. I got killed in Helgen by a spider that dropped down from the ceiling behind me while I was firing my bow. That never happened before. I think Skyrim Immersive creatures caused extra spiders to appear because I got attacked by several new spiders while looting the egg sacks later. That was a cool surprise. I added Expanded Cities and Towns because it's a great mod that adds common sense things to the towns, such as a smelter and shrine in Riverwood. I've avoided city mods like JK's Whiterun and Better City Entrances because they just cause too much lag but I think ETaC is worth it. According to the mod author, the load order has to be just right though.

Rather than optimizing the textures yourself with DDSopt, I recommend using the highly polished ones available on Nexus: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/57353/? Graphics Configuration NVidia Control Panel - Manage 3D Settings all other features are at Use Global Setting. Skyrim Launcher Options all other options use default values. Skyrim.ini all other attributes use STEP values. SkyPrefs.ini all other attributes use STEP values. EnbLocal.ini These values are for 2GB of VRAM on 64 bit OS with NVidia graphics adapter. Screenshots: https://1drv.ms/10fUy06, https://1drv.ms/1xbnT6R

Here is my mod list in the order they appear in Mod Organizer: [edit] Updated the mod list to reflect recent changes.

Stepping Out combines the best mods from Step Extended and Skyrim Revisited Legendary Edition while excluding the ones I didn't like for one reason or another and adding worthy mods that are not part of either. The step extended patch is used so no conflict resolution is necessary. BOSS and BOSS Userlist Management are not needed. Note: it is best to compare the installation instructions for both Step Extended and Skyrim Revisited Legendary Edition before deciding which download to take and which setup options to choose. Install all the Mods in Step Extended except for the following: Install all the mods in Skyrim Revisited Legendary Edition except for the following: Note: also exclude mods that have already been excluded from Step Extended Add the following mods which are not part of STEP: Cheers, Silvermane

The STEP instructions: Download the latest ENB binary. STEP does not recommend downloading the Skyrim Nexus version of ENBoost due to incorrect settings for STEP. The links at the bottom of the page list all the binaries. Choose the latest file (usually the one on the top of the list), then on the next page click the button. The only links on https://enbdev.com/ are for an advertisement and the privacy policy. I don't see any links to download the ENB binary. Is the page broken or am I missing something? [Edit] It looks like https://enbdev.com/download_mod_tesskyrim.html page can't be resolved so it is going to https://enbdev.com instead.